Architectural features that should be taken out of rotation

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Open floorplan means you are inviting and cordial. Closed plans means you hate people and children.

[Anonymous]

Anything vinyl should be taken out of rotation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top trends are this, open floor plan with the kitchen as the center point of the house, a great room, 3 car garage, but less 2 story options wanted. Overall people want an open connected home that is less formal and closed off.

http://info.stantonhomes.com/bid/66177/Top-8-New-Home-Trends-Conserving-Space-Lowering-Cost-Saving-Energy

If you post this article enough times maybe we'll believe it. Not!

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Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse sinks. (Does that count as architecture?)

NP here. Can someone tell me the appeal of a farmhouse sink? Even if you have a huge kitchen, what are you doing in there that requires a sink the size of a small bathtub? Everyone on House Hunters wants them, and I can't figure out if they're useful or just hipster. I'm truly curious. Thanks.

Farmhouse sinks are great if you are shorter. It's easier to reach in (you just have about 1-2" front of the sink) than to have an undermounted one. We are in the process of building a new house and are putting one in for this reason.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse sinks. (Does that count as architecture?)

NP here. Can someone tell me the appeal of a farmhouse sink? Even if you have a huge kitchen, what are you doing in there that requires a sink the size of a small bathtub? Everyone on House Hunters wants them, and I can't figure out if they're useful or just hipster. I'm truly curious. Thanks.

Do you wash pots or large dishes?

NP here. I understand why someone might want a huge sink, but I don't understand wanting the front wall of the sink to show from the counter (rather than have the little flip-down shelf there).

I like my nine-light window, but they're individual lights and the style is appropriate to the era of the house.

You know what no house needs, ever? Octagonal windows. It's not as though they're being done wrong, like Palladian windows. They're just bad.

Except, perhaps, the octagonal house in San Francisco:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon_house

I think perhaps that particular house could benefit from a little octagonal accent window somewhere or other.

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Anonymous wrote:Two-story great rooms and foyers.

agreed. total waste of space.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Two-story great rooms and foyers.

agreed. total waste of space.

What if you have the space? I don't need a 7th bedroom.

[Anonymous]

I agreed with the list. It said nothing about open floor plans. It was more about architectural features. The only 3 I didn't fully agree with were the palladium windows (more windows) the columns have them if you want them and the 9 pane doors. Well, not nine pane, but the half size. The full size would give me the creeps that someone would kick it and why not have more light with the half window?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agreed with the list. It said nothing about open floor plans. It was more about architectural features. The only 3 I didn't fully agree with were the palladium windows (more windows) the columns have them if you want them and the 9 pane doors. Well, not nine pane, but the half size. The full size would give me the creeps that someone would kick it and why not have more light with the half window?

palladium is out , transom is in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Open floorplan means you are inviting and cordial. Closed plans means you hate people and children.

You are weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Open floorplan means you are inviting and cordial. Closed plans means you hate people and children.

Interesting - I do hate people and extremely open floorplans. Ideally, I'd like a cozy seating area in a kitchen, but still a separate entertaining space.

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Anonymous wrote:i have been humored by this site time and time again. i find that the stuff poeple don't like is the stuff they want but can't have.

Translation: PP has all these features in her house and is trying to convince herself that we're all just jealous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Open floorplan means you are inviting and cordial. Closed plans means you hate people and children.

Interesting - I do hate people and extremely open floorplans. Ideally, I'd like a cozy seating area in a kitchen, but still a separate entertaining space.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i have been humored by this site time and time again. i find that the stuff poeple don't like is the stuff they want but can't have.

Open floor plan with a kitchen visable from the front door? Lived in a house with one. HATED it. No one needs to have their dirty dishes and food smells grewt guests when they wwlk through the door or pop in to say hello.

What I like is a center hall floorplan with spacious defined rooms separated by large double sized door openings and a spacious kitchen with a casual living space and windows.

Kitchen and casual area in the back, defined formal rooms in the front, with some sort of division between the two.

Windows on all sides of the house and good airflow, like they did in the nicer houses before AC.

Anything but a completely or virtually wall less main floor.

Soem peoople have clean houses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Two-story great rooms and foyers.

agreed. total waste of space.

What if you have the space? I don't need a 7th bedroom.

Just like you don't need a fourth, fifth or sixth bedroom